Stuart Ablett
Member
- Messages
- 15,917
- Location
- Tokyo Japan
So I was rough turning that piece of Shii wood, and as I'd not done a lot of green wood work in a while I sort of forgot that the spray of wood chips, especially from the EWT carbide tools, goes all over the place. I really need to put a guide rail and shower curtain in....
Well my lathe took a beating, but it is used to it, lots of tannin in that wood as it turned the ways of my lathe black quickly. I turned around and saw a bunch of wood curlies on the top of my SawStop.... whoops.....
this took about 15 minutes. There was a bunch of other stuff sitting on the saw top, so the pattern is varied, but man those wood chips did a number on my top..
Better get right on that, I sprayed the whole thing down with WD40 and got out my old ROS and started to fix this. I did #120, #180, #220, #320, wiping it clean between grits, to make sure none of the old grit was present when I started the new grit.
I used the WD40 on all the grits, as it helps in two way, IMHO, it shows me when to change the sanding disc, as the WD40 stops getting darker in color from sanding the metal and it slows down the sanding discs loading up.
When I was all done I wiped it again with brake Kleen then I applied the CRC 3-36 rust inhibitor.
It turned out just fine, but I'm going to make some sort of a cover for the top, I don't want to be doing this again anytime soon!
Cheers!
Well my lathe took a beating, but it is used to it, lots of tannin in that wood as it turned the ways of my lathe black quickly. I turned around and saw a bunch of wood curlies on the top of my SawStop.... whoops.....
this took about 15 minutes. There was a bunch of other stuff sitting on the saw top, so the pattern is varied, but man those wood chips did a number on my top..
Better get right on that, I sprayed the whole thing down with WD40 and got out my old ROS and started to fix this. I did #120, #180, #220, #320, wiping it clean between grits, to make sure none of the old grit was present when I started the new grit.
I used the WD40 on all the grits, as it helps in two way, IMHO, it shows me when to change the sanding disc, as the WD40 stops getting darker in color from sanding the metal and it slows down the sanding discs loading up.
When I was all done I wiped it again with brake Kleen then I applied the CRC 3-36 rust inhibitor.
It turned out just fine, but I'm going to make some sort of a cover for the top, I don't want to be doing this again anytime soon!
Cheers!